Status Update for Soil Moisture Mission
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A post-launch briefing was held Jan. 31 to discuss the launch and status of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft. SMAP, which launched earlier the same day aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, is the first U.S. Earth-observing satellite designed to collect global observations of surface soil moisture. The mission’s high resolution space-based measurements of soil moisture will give scientists a new capability to better predict natural hazards of extreme weather and improve our understanding of Earth’s water, energy and carbon cycles.
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Status Update for Soil Moisture Mission
8 Comments
8 Comments
Nice launch! 😀
Awesome!
Love to see people like geoff at the press conferences, I know everyone is excited about the launch but geoff really wears it on the outside. Love it 😀
Uh
Those seats should be filled. 🙁 Maybe if he launched Kim Kardassian on a mission to space, it might generate some plebeian interest.
GREAT JOB, GO NASA
If they want the “post launch” news conference to be better attended they they should have the girls from Hooters giving the mission launch review. If the served wings and beer I would go.
soil moisture mission seriously, why is this not man walking on mars mission its been nearly 50 years for gods sake